I bought most of my cages. There are two wooden cages I made them myself; one outside the house - deserted because of mosquito & another one located in the garage for my outdoor cat. I have 6 adult indoor cats & I put them in the cages before I go to sleep & also during daytime on weekday. Out of the 6 cats only two allowed to freely roaming in the house 24/7.

My advice is go get the biggest & tallest cage you can afford. This is my personal preference because I like them to have a lot of space because they spend a lot of time in the cage during weekday.

One thing I don't like about cat cage is that there is no space for water & food bowls. Since the cage is huge I just DIY it. The cage was made by KWZONE (C10 cage). I use cardboard to cover the bottom section because that is where their litter box located. 2 in 1 actually, the cardboard also their scratching post. I need to change it later. The cdrom drive, wireless modem & a block of wood - I use double tape to hold them in place - they are for holding the bowls in place. It just temporary. Lily - the orange+black cat - is very naughty. The other two is mixed of Siamese & domestic cats. I also put the cage near the window because they like to hangout near the window. As you can see no bedding because of the hot weather lately & they like it this way.







This post has been edited by kizwan: Aug 20 2014, 08:55 AM

Her name is Puteh. I'm very bad in identifying cat breeds. So I need help in identifying this cat breed. I thought she is Siamese but she doesn't show common Siamese cat behaviour. One example, she is not vocal. Even when breakfast or dinner time, she just sit there calmly staring at me without "saying" anything, just waiting for me to give her food. My other cats will already vocal even if I'm late just a couple of minutes.




This post has been edited by kizwan: Aug 20 2014, 01:58 PM

Welcome! Cute cat. My cat can't stop looking at it.

Hope he is ok now. Is the monitor lizard is similar to biawak? Over here we have biawak. Whenever biawak sees a cat, i.e. a cat stalking biawak, the biawak will raised the body, possibly to scare the cat. I don't know how your cat can go fight a monitor lizard but I'm not surprise. A year or two years ago I saw my cat trying to capture a snake. Of course the snake got away. I was actually panicking at the time because the snake try to "patuk" my cat but my cat "elak" like it was nothing.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Aug 27 2014, 05:19 PM

There is a recent incident, like last week. My oldest cat got out of the house through the roof ceiling. It was at night. She got a fight with musang. She is actually chasing the musang after that. I was able to tracked my cat at my neighbour house around 5.30 - 6.00 a.m. Minor injury on her feet & trauma.

She is white & it was pitch black because my neighbour not at home. This is kampung house. Imagine that I'm chasing a white object in the dark. Sound like I'm looking for trouble chasing a white object in the dark, scary! I don't really care at the time though. The only thing in my mind at the time was my cat safety. Hehe.

I don't think so too. My cats & the cats in my neighbourhood don't go near to monitor lizard. They (cats) keep their distance when they see monitor lizard & monitor lizard also avoid them. A couple of times I saw monitor lizard raised their body when it realized a cat nearby. In all occurrence cats kept their distance or back away.

That's too vague. How old is he? Is this one of the cats that you exiled out of the house? He probably ate something that he should not eat. Hopefully he get better soon. Let us know.

I know. I have no problem with my cats & kitten live indoor & outdoor before but lately (started earlier this year) kitten easily get cat flu. The first cat got the flu was my outdoor cat but he recover quickly. Because he stayed in the house after he got sick & not long after he got well, my two indoor cats got flu too. One of them pretty bad, got blood came out with saliva. Antibiotics given by vet helps in fighting the infections fortunately. A few of my tenant's kitten died because of this. Right now I put my tenant's kitten, 3 kitten at least 3 months old, in my house. One of them free of cat flue & the other two doing well recovering from flu. I don't let them go outside until they fully recover from flu. Total of 5 kitten of my tenant's kitten died recently because of flu. I wish I brought all of them come stay inside the house but it's difficult because the're not my kitten.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Sep 7 2014, 08:55 PM

Yup. Also eyes are swollen & red. On kitten, usually with a discharge that is often filled with pus caused by bacteria infection. One of the eyes will be closed all the time because it's swollen & most of the time it's the left eye. If the kitten remain outside the house, they will not survive. 99% chance they will die, especially the kitten who no longer active, just sit there & refused to eat/drink. I tried nursing around 3 - 4 kitten that already in this condition. It always the same; kitten lose appetite around 1 to 2 days, then suddenly resume eating like very hungry & then on the next day or the day after, it will eat a little, loose appetite again, look tired & then few hours later it died. All I can do is make them comfortable.

I can't recommend any brand because some brands not available everywhere. I'm pretty sure you can find cheaper cat food at your local pet shop & make sure the main protein source is not corn. If the main protein source is fish meal and/or poultry meal and/or meat, then it's good cat food. I like to mixed kibbles with Friskies can food (fish) once everyday for additional protein source.

It's first time you locked her up in the cage. Give her time to adjust to new routine. She will stop sleeping in the litter box. What kind of cage you have there? Double or triple storey?

This post has been edited by kizwan: Sep 12 2014, 05:21 PM

I did used to put litter box outside for stray cats & the first night I put the litter box, they sleep in it. The sands litter feels cosier to them probably. So I brought out another clean litter box, filled it with sands litter & put a towel on top of it & it worked in preventing them from sleeping in the actual litter box.

Probably it's hot/warm day/night. Probably that is the reason why your cat like to sleep in the litter box.

Try put a cardboard box in the cage. Find one small enough to fit in the cage & big enough for the cat to sleep in it. Boxes are like magnet for cats. Good chance your cat will sleep in the box instead of litter box.

One of my cat like to sleep in the hammock when she was a kitten. Out of three, only one.

Look good to me. It use chicken as main protein source.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Sep 16 2014, 03:21 AM

Thank you for adopting them.

Wood-based litter don't clump. Pellets usually look like this:-


When the cat peed on the wood pellets, it will break down to dust which you can discard later. I use pine wood cat litter & I use self-cleaning litter box like this:-


Much easier to discard the dust using self-cleaning litter box. Of course you can use regular litter box & discard the entire content after all pellets turn to dust. You will need to discard the excrement when you see them though since it sit on top of the litter. Surprisingly they cover the smell quite well IMO. Tips: put the litter box in well ventilated area.

Wood-based litter is economical, especially if you have many cats. If you discard the wood dust regularly, there will be no problem with dust.

I think I saw another form of wood-based litter. They in form of wood dust instead of in cylindrical compressed pellets.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Sep 20 2014, 08:49 PM

Depends on the cats. Most of my cats (that are using pine wood litter) like to cover the stool. Mostly because they used clumping sand litter before. The smaller the wood pellets, the easier they can cover the stool.

Yeah, the wood dust prevent the sand from clumping but like you said the wood dust cover the smell pretty good. Why don't you keep using the Feline Fresh pallet. Just try it out for a while. I've used Feline Fresh before. It's RM20 per bag right? Feline Fresh does not available at my local pet shop but they have Paw Mark. It's bigger pellets than Feline Fresh & only RM30 per bag (9kg bag).

Feline Fresh pine wood pellets small enough. Should be no problem. But yeah, since you're comfortable with clumping sands, you should stick with it though. The Feline Fresh Clumping Pine Litter sound interesting.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Sep 24 2014, 10:29 PM

He is marking his territory, also a calling card saying "Hey ladies! Lucky was here!". It's time to neuter the cat. He will live happily & healthy after. Also you won't need to worry he spraying in the house.

Where you get that info? Neutered cat doesn't prevent him from protecting himself or his territory. He doesn't turn to pondan.

I've seen un-neutered cats died on the road because he is crossing the road to find female cats to mates. Have your cat go "jalan-jalan" during daytime & come back home before meals? Before you know it, his "jalan-jalan" time will be longer, only come back at night, later come back the next morning, later missing for a day or two or a week & later possibly doesn't come back at all. Neutered cat is less likely to roam.

Please lock & keep them in the house. This time just few days, next time donno what will happen.